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Richard Arkwright junior (19 December 1755 – 23 April 1843), the son of Sir Richard Arkwright of Cromford, Derbyshire, was a mills owner, turned banker, investor and financier (creditor) of many successful state and private entreprises of the British Industrial Revolution which his father had helped to catalyse.
He died in 1843 worth £3 ¼ million, a wealthier man by far than his father. Sir Richard Arkwright is remembered for his inventions – as father of the factory system – Richard Arkwright junior’s achievement was the foundation of a dynasty.
This scoping report sets out findings from a short research project into the slavery connections of the Arkwrights from the later 18th to the mid 19th centuries undertaken in April to July 2021. It has a specific focus on Richard Arkwright senior, Richard Arkwright junior and Augustus Peter Arkwright.
Richard Arkwright junior was uninterested in the cotton business, and after the death of his father the Arkwright family ceased to invest in the industry. The Strutt family continued to invest, fuelled by the profits of their mills in Milford and Belper.
Find out more about the about the key figures who helped to build the Derwent Valley Mills: Sir Richard Arkwright, who is known as “the father of the factory system”, and his son Richard Arkwright junior; Charles Woolley Bage, the noted pioneer of fire-proof mill structures;
This is the definitive biography of Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-1792) and the first detailed account of the life of his only son Richard Arkwright junior (1755-1843), and the dynasty of land owning gentry he founded and sustained from his immense wealth.
They had a son, Richard Arkwright Junior, who was born the same year. Patience died in 1756, and then in 1761 Arkwright, aged 29, married Margaret Biggins. They had three children, of whom only Susannah survived to adulthood.
